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About a week after planting the seeds we have little seedlings appearing All the cucumber seeds have sprouted as well as a couple of the tomato plants. So far no sign of life from the eggplant or cherry tomato plant seeds.

Apparently its a bit too cold to plant the seedlings yet and warming the soil a bit can also help. So I’ve put down some black plastic where we’re planning on planting the seedlings when they’re ready. I dug some organic fertiliser into the ground and we picked up some pea straw for mulch so are already once the seedlings have matured enough to go outside.

We’ve been thinking of growing some of our own vegetables for a while now. Finally this weekend got around to buying some seeds. Its still a bit cold to plant anything outside, but we’re using a couple of egg cartons in the kitchen window to start the seedlings which should be ready when the weather warms up.

We have a row each of tomatoes, cucumber, cherry tomatoes and eggplant. If these sprout ok in couple of weeks we’ll start another lot of the same.